AS'ARUM JAPON'ICUM. 
JAPAN ASAEABACCA. 
Class. 
dodecandria. 
Order 
MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
ARISTOLOCHIACE^. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in Duration. 
Introduced 
Japan. 
.5 inches. 
ftlay, June. Perennial 
in 1843? 
No. 999. 
The name, Asamm, is deduced from the Greek 
privative a, and seika, a bandage ; from the unfit- 
ness of the flowers for garlands. 
Asamm Japonicumis a newly-introduced plant, 
having been sent to this country from the continent, 
by, we believe, some of the Belgian nurserymen, 
who, of late years, have acquired this and many 
other productions from Japan, through Doctor Von 
Sieboldt and other travellers. Japan, according to 
Kfempfer, is rich in vegetable splendour; for, he 
says, “such is the beauty of the flowers which or- 
nament the hills, the fields, and the forests, that 
the country may even dispute the preference in 
this point with Persia.” And Thunberg says of 
Japan, that it has no waste land ; that if any por- 
tion be left uncultivated by its occupier, it maybe 
seized by a more industrious neighbour. England, 
notwithstanding her own industiy, has yet some- 
thing to learn from less civilized countries. 
It is not quite certain that the present species 
will endure our severe winters; therefore, till this 
has been ascertained, each possessor of it should 
protect a plant in a cold frame. 
